$616.57 Three Strikes Verdict Cost RIANZ $250,000

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 1, 2013 @03:52AM from the gotta-spend-money-to-make-money! dept.

Dangerous_Minds writes "On Wednesday, we discussed news that RIANZ convicted its first file-sharer under the New Zealand three strikes law. While the fine totaled $616.57, a New Zealand Herald report points out that in order to get that fine, RIANZ had to spend $250,000. Freezenet makes an interesting point that HADOPI (France's version of the three strikes law) faced similar problems when the Socialist party commented that 12 million euros was a lot of money to pay 60 agents to send out 1 million e-mails. The question raised is whether or not this money pit trend will continue when the Copyright Alert System starts processing strike notices in the United States."

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Re:-1, Wrong by blind+monkey+3 · 2013-02-01 09:05 · Score: 0, Redundant

+10 insightful, +10 informarive, -10 for reading the summary, -1000 for quoting the summary.
At /. it's di rigueur to the read the headline and use the force to fill in the details. Shame on you AC, hand in your /. badge and pick up a /, one.

Also note the deliberare typo above, this is a simple jedi trick to get people to critique the spelling and ignore the content (also works with grammar btw).
May the farce be with you.

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